Beetle genera are the genera of the order Coleoptera, which GBIF counts at more than 500,000 descendant taxa across at least 341 families. The biggest families by that count are Curculionidae, Staphylinidae, Carabidae, Cerambycidae, Scarabaeidae and Chrysomelidae. Their leading genera are Carabus with about 4,034 descendant taxa in the Carabidae, Atheta with about 2,168 in the Staphylinidae, Anomala with about 1,321 in the Scarabaeidae, Baris with about 952 in the Curculionidae and Cassida with about 528 in the Chrysomelidae.
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GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Coleoptera
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"canonicalName":"Curculionidae","vernacularName":"snout beetle","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":93394
Children of Coleoptera: Staphylinidae
"canonicalName":"Staphylinidae","vernacularName":"rove beetle","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Latreille, P.A. (1802) Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des crustacés et des insectes. Familles naturelles des genres. Vol. 3. F. Dufart, Paris. xii + 13-467 pp.","numDescendants":80409
Children of Coleoptera: Carabidae
"canonicalName":"Carabidae","vernacularName":"ground beetle","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Latreille, P.A. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l'histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par LECLERC DE BUFFON, et rédigée par C.S.SONNINI, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. - xii - pp. 13-467. (Paris: F.DUFART). (1802).","numDescendants":57856
Children of Coleoptera: Cerambycidae
"canonicalName":"Cerambycidae","vernacularName":"longhorned beetle","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":47853
Children of Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae
"canonicalName":"Scarabaeidae","vernacularName":"scarab beetle","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Latreille, P. A. (1802). Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere des crustacés et des insectes. Paris 3:1-467 (139-159). https://archive.org/download/histoirenaturell34latr/histoirenaturell34latr.pdf","numDescendants":45331
Children of Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
"canonicalName":"Chrysomelidae","vernacularName":"leaf beetle","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":22637
View the Source GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Carabidae
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"canonicalName":"Carabus","vernacularName":"Worm and Slug Hunters","authorship":"Linnaeus, 1758","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Linnaeus, C. Systema naturae, per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Tomus I. iv + 823 pp. [+ 1 unnumbered page: Emendata, Addenda] (Stockholm: Laurentii SALVIi). (1758).","numDescendants":4034
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Staphylinidae
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"canonicalName":"Atheta","vernacularName":"Vexing Rove Beetles","authorship":"C.G.Thomson, 1858","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Thomson, C.G. (1858) Försök till uppställning af Sveriges Staphyliner. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, 15.","numDescendants":2168
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Curculionidae
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"canonicalName":"Baris","authorship":"E.F.Germar, 1817","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Germar, Ernst F. 1817. Miscellen und Correspondenz - Nachrichten. Magazin der Entomologie 2: 339-341.","numDescendants":952
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Chrysomelidae
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"canonicalName":"Cassida","vernacularName":"tortoise beetles","authorship":"Linnaeus, 1758","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":" Systema Naturae , Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 362","numDescendants":528
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Scarabaeidae
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"canonicalName":"Anomala","authorship":"Leach, 1819","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"DOUBTFUL","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":0
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, Coleoptera
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"numDescendants":501129
Wikipedia: Carabus
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Carabus is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, and was first described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus.
Wikipedia: Calosoma
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Calosoma is a genus of large ground beetles that occur primarily throughout the Northern Hemisphere, and are referred to as caterpillar hunters or caterpillar searchers.
Wikipedia: Cerambyx
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Cerambyx is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles).
Anoplophora - Wikipedia
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Anoplophora is a genus of beetles in the longhorn beetle family (Cerambycidae).
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